People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

A canvas is an arena in which to act.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.